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Tomás Acuña Ruz
Environmental Engineer, Remote Sensing Specialist and Full Stack Developer
Education
Summer School: Advanced CROCO
University of Concepción & IRD France (LEGOS)
University of Concepción & IRD France (LEGOS)
2022 - 2022
- Advances features of CROCO II
Summer School: GEOBIA – Operational Copernicus
University of Salzburg
University of Salzburg
2020 - 2020
- GEOBIA – OBIA for the operational Copernicus service challenge
Diploma in Applied Geomatics
University of Chile
University of Chile
2015 - 2015
Renewable Natural Resources Engineering
University of Chile
University of Chile
2015 - 2013
- Thesis: Spectral Signatures of Urban Vegetation in Santiago, Chile: Characterization and Separability of Species at Leaf Scale.
B.S. in Sciences of Natural Resource (minor C.S.)
University of Chile
University of Chile
2013 - 2010
Higher Secondary School in Exacts and Naturals Sciences
University of Chile
University of Chile
2010 - 2009
Positions
Principal researcher
ANID
BloomAlert
2022 - 2021
- Implementation of biophysical methods for optical calibration and validation of satellite models for coastal risk in desalination, as a strategy for national water security (SUC210042)
Chief technology officer
Santiago, Chile
2021 - 2018
- Main manager of technology staff to early warning system to reduce impacts over desalination process caused by extreme ocean variables. I lead the data science team and developers of the application software.
Publications and Writing
Fusion of monitoring strategies and insights on plastic leakage in waterways and beaches around Cambodia
J. Haz. Mat. (Submitted)
N/A
2023 - 2023
- Smith, G., Acuña-Ruz, T. & Garaba, S. P.,
Defining Priority Areas for the Sustainable Development of the Desalination Industry in Chile: A GIS Multi-Criteria Analysis Approach
Sustainability
N/A
2022 - 2022
- García-Bartolomei, E., Vásquez, V., Rebolledo, G., Vivallo, A., Tomás Acuña-Ruz, et al.
Hyperspectral longwave infrared reflectance spectra of naturally dried algae, anthropogenic plastics, sands and shells
Earth Syst. Sci. Data
N/A
2020 - 2020
- Garaba, S. P., Acuña-Ruz, T., and Mattar, C. B.
A country’s re-sponse to tackling plastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems: TheChilean way
Aquat. Conserv.: Mar. Freshw. Ecosyst.
N/A
2020 - 2020
- Urbina, M. A., Luna-Jorquera, G., Thiel, M., Acuña-Ruz, T.,Amenábar Cristi, M. A., Andrade, et al.
Thermal infrared spectral database of marine litter debris in Archipelago of Chiloé, Chile
Pangaea.de
N/A
2020 - 2020
- Acuña-Ruz, T., Mattar B., C
Effects of the surrounding landscape on waterbird populations in estuarine ecosystems of central Chile
Wetlands Ecology and Management
N/A
2019 - 2019
- Acuña, M.P., Vukasovic, M.A., Hernandez, J., Acuña-Ruz, T., Estades, C
Anthropogenic marine debris over beaches: Spectral characterization for remote sensing applications
Remote Sensing of Environment
N/A
2018 - 2018
- Acuña-Ruz, T., Mattar, C., Uribe, D. & Taylor R., Merrill, J., Martínez P., Voisin, L